Clif Bar Family Foundation supports innovative small and mid-sized groups working to strengthen our food system and our communities, enhance public health, and safeguard our environment and natural resources.

- Preserving wild places and backcountry

- Reducing waste and advancing renewable energy

- Keeping climate action on the front burner

- Conserving open spaces

- Developing pedestrian- and bike-friendly towns and cities

- Enabling more Americans to enjoy nature

- Improving air quality

- Cleaning up our water supplies

- Reducing other exposures to toxic materials

- Supporting effective innovation in education

- Creating safer, healthier housing

- Generating green jobs and small businesses

- Increasing youth access to arts and culture

- Expanding organic food and farming

- Reconnecting our farms to our families

- Safeguarding the seeds we depend on

- Rolling back hunger and malnutrition

Many of the Foundation’s priorities are deliberately interconnected. These connections enable us to achieve a core set of goals through numerous routes. By addressing one of our priorities, we can advance efforts in one or more of our other priority areas, leveraging the Foundation’s resources in the process. For example:

A healthier food system improves our air and water quality, creates safer communities and fights climate change by keeping carbon and nitrogen in the soil and reducing the use of petrochemical-based farm inputs.

Preserving our wild, open places offers us opportunities for vigorous outdoor activity in clean air and water without leaving a large footprint on the land.

Reducing waste and advancing renewable energy conserves resources, reduces the threat of climate change, improves air and water quality, and creates green businesses and jobs.

Identifying environmental sources of chronic illnesses, such as breast cancer, can pave the way for action to shift toward organic farming and reduce our reliance on nonrenewable, polluting fossil fuels.